Fun self care day at the zoo!

This post is only going to be photos I took at the zoo this past weekend.

This weekend I made the previous post on gratitude, but I wanted to also spend the weekend doing things I enjoy that aren’t the blog or related to school. I wasn’t planning on doing anything for the blog, but as I was taking pictures and videos for my own fun, I ended up getting the urge to turn it into a YouTube video.

I haven’t posted a new video on the channel since last year when I made the guided meditation on grief following my aunt’s death, but I left all of the past videos up in case anyone would find them useful.

While I have not gotten really any kind of following on my YouTube channel and not too much traffic on here, I’m not going to stop making posts, and videos, and I’m not going to stop exploring my creativity and trying new things.

The whole reason I started this blog and the YouTube channel were because I feel I have a lot of knowledge and educational experience in the areas of mental health, social work and human services.

I also have general life as a white, non binary person born female, in their late 20s who had been through a variety of life situations and lived life with different roles and responsibilities all at once.

I’ve been almost all of the familial roles a person fits in in a biological and adoptive family, a best friend, a student, a roommate, an employee, an intern, a community member, a church member (now full of religious trauma), a citizen of many towns in Connecticut and New York, in the United States of America, of the planet Earth, within the Milky Way Galaxy, within the universe.

I have experience with mental illness and developmental disabilities, poverty, child abuse and neglect in various ways and adult abuse in various ways, discrimination and oppression due to sexism, homophobia, and non binary/trans phobia.

I also have experienced average everyday life events like losses we all go through from various things, like ends of relationships, deaths of loved ones, angsty teenage drama (with some unfortunate bullying), family struggles (non-abuse related), and other normal life inconveniences like surgeries sicknesses.

I know it seems like I am only focusing on the negative stuff I have been through, but I also know one fact, I’ve been through all of that and survived, and am doing pretty well right now and I think I have some good advice to give someone about these issues and life situations.

Layered in this post of amazing animals were some facts about me and why I do what I do even though I don’t see many results. I am not going anywhere so get ready for a ride, and I promise it’s won’t all be so serious, I will talk about fun light hearted topics in addition to discussing more serious matters. Stick around and I’ll try not to dissapoint ya!

Check out the full video of my self care trip to the zoo/conservatory in my town!